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apices. Raceme slightly twisted; the rachis bracts and ovaries covered with long thin 
sub-hispid hairs. Flowers numerous, rather crowded, ovoid, :15 in. in diam.; floral bract 
lanceolate, acuminate, brown, conspicuous, longer than the almost sessile ovary. Sepals 
sub-equal, broadly elliptic, concave, obtuse, densely covered with minute glandular hairs, 
overlapping by their edges, the apices slightly expanded. Petals as long as the sepals, 
sigmoidly lanceolate, sub-acute. Zip slightly shorter than the sepals, with a sub-globose 
sac at the base with many set; inside it, passing gradually into the oblong, sub-acute, 
almost horizontal, non-lamellate apical lobe. Column short, with a long beaked rostellum. . 
Anther pyriform, depressed, with a long beak; pollinia narrowly clavate, bipartite, conjoined 
by their inner edges and inserted on a large oblong gland. Hook. fil. Ic. Plantar. 
t. 2186; Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 114. ! | 
Sikkim, at Kali Jhora in the valley of the Teesta, at an elevation of about 1,000 
feet; in flower during September; Pantling No. 190. Khasia Hills; at Cherrapunji, 
elevation 4,000 feet, Hooker. | 
The sepals are olivaceous green, their tips being white; the petals and lip are of a 
dirty white. The bracts and rachis are brown, a colour which, in the stem, passes into 
brownish-purple. The leaves are green, flushed with pink towards the edges and beauti- 
fully reticulated with pure white. 
Prate 875.—Goodyera hispida, Lindl. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary, and flower, 
front view, 2 apex of ovary, bract and flower, in profile, 3 the petals, 4 the flower with the dorsal 
sepals and petals removed, looked at from above, 5 side view of the apex of the ovary, column with 
anther іп sifu, and lip, 6 longitudinal section of the lip to show the sete in the interior of the sac, 
8 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
8. GoopERA SECUNDIFLORA, Griff. Notul. III, 393; Ic. Pl. As. 347, fig. 2. 
.Height of whole plant 6 to 12 in., slender, completely enveloped in the loose 
sheathing leaf-petioles, the upper part bearing long tubular acute bracts. Leaves few, 
scattered, ovate-lanceolate to elliptie-acute, the base rounded or narrowed into the stout 
sheathing petiole; length 15 to 3°5 in., breadth “75 to 1°25 in.; petiole “75 to 1 ш.; 
peduncle pubescent, bearing several bracts like those of the stem. aceme with its rachis 
and the floral bracts and ovaries densely glandular-pubescent or almost tomentose, many- 
flowered. - Flowers broadly ovoid, "95 in. long; floral bract shorter than or equal to 
the ovary. -Sepals sub-acute, ovate, the dorsal narrower; the lateral pair sub-gibbous, | 
spreading, sub-aeute. Petals faleately oblanceolate, the apex obliquely beaked, crenate on 
the outer margin. Lip sub-globularly saccate at the base, the sae with slender setae 
inside; the apical lobe ovate, acute, concave, its dise with two thick lamelle. Columa | 
with a short rostellum; anther pyriform, the beak long; pollinia two, narrowly. clavate, 
bipartite and attached to a long very narrow "ark brown gland. Stigma orbicular. 
Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 182; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 113. 
^^ Sikkim, at Labba, elevation 6,000 feet; in flower during September to January; 
Pantling No. 292. Khasia Hills, elevation 4,000 to 5,000 feet; Griffith. Munipur; Watt. 
‘Distrib. China. : 
E aes of the flower are yellowish-pink, except. the lip, which is white tipped 
with greon. The leaves are pale green, mottled with a darker tint of the same 
colour. 
Axx. Ror Bor. Gau», Carcurta, Vor, VIII 
